Matrix for linotype or line-casting machines.



No. 785,478. PATENTED MAR 21, 1905. F. C. L. DAIX.

MATRIX FOR LINOTYPE 0R LINE CASTING MACHINE S.

- APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 15.1904. RENEWED FEB. 28. 1905.

ullllllll' llm No. 785,478. PATENTED MAR. 21, 1905.

. F. 0, L. DAIX. MATRIX FOR LINOTYPE 0R LINE CASTING MACHINES.

APIPLIOATION FILED JUNE 15. .1904. RENEWED FEB. 2B,'1906.

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MA RIX FOR LINOTYPE 0R LINE CASTING MACHINES.

' APPLICATION FILED JUNE 16. lQOfL RENEWED FEB. 28, 1905- 4 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

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- I No. '78'5,478.

c. L. DAIX.

MATRIX FOR LINOTYPE 0R LINEOASTING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15. 1904. RENE ED FEB. 28, 1905- 4SHEETS SHEET 4 We Frames Patented March 21, IQQES.

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MATREX FOR LlNOTYPE OR LiNE-CASTENG MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 785,478, dated March 21, 190 5.

' Application filed June 15, 1904. Renewed February 28, 1905. Serial No. 247,801.

- of thecity of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Matrices for Linotype or Line-Casting Machines, of whichthe fol lowing is a specification.

My invention relates to matrices employed in machines for casting lines of type, and more particularly to matrices provided each with a plurality of characters-as, for example, in

Letters Patent Nos. 697,859 and 7 47 ,832; and its object is to provide matrices of this kind from which lines of characters of one andthe same body-point or of varying body-points in any desired combination can be cast at -pleasure-a result which, so far as I am informed, has not hitherto been obtained.

Body-point, as understood in the type-foundcr's art, refers to the style, face, height, and width of the character, and by characters of varying body-points I mean characters which vary between one another in style,

face, height, and width.

To this end the invention consists, essentially, of a matrix provided with a series of spaces for separate characters, which spaces are of different widths, substantially as hereinafter set forth.

So far as I am aware I am the first to provide a matrix of this kind-that is to say, a matrix with a plurality of characters of differe'ntbody-points, or, in other words. characters varying in style, face, height, and width.-

My new matrix may be made of rectangular shape or as a straight bar, as ordinarily, or of segmental shape, as shown in my Letters Patent hereinbefore referredto.

The nature of my invention and the manner in which the same is or'may be carried into effect will bereadi'ly understood by ref erence to the accompanying drawings, in

whichv I Figure 1 isaside elevation of a rectangular or straight-bar matrix embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of a number of such matrices assembled so as to bring into 'the same line'characters of the same bodypoint. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a segmental matrix embodying my invention and of the general kind described and illustrated in my aforesaid Letters Patent, Fig. 4 is a front elevation of a number of such matrices assembled to bring into the same line characters of the same body-point. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of a set of segmental matrices assembled in such relation as to bring into the same casting-line characters of diiferent body-points. matrices when assembled as 1n Fig. 5, show- Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the ing also a portion of the mold 15 in which thecast linel i is contained. Fig. 7 isa view of the line cast from the assemblage of matrices in Figs. 5 and 6. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of a matrix having a plurality of faces of three different body-points. Figs. 9 and 10 are a front and side elevation, respectively, corresponding to Figs. 5 and 6 of a modification hereinafter described.

In the matrices shownin Figs. land 2 there are characters of two diflferent body-points, l

being a thirty-six-point-body face and 2 being an eighteen-point-body face. One of the latter is above and one is below the thirty-sixpoint-body face 1'. That portion of the matrix-bar devoted to the thirty-six-point-character space 1 is, as seen, wider than the portions of the matrix which extend above and below it and on which are the eighteen-pointcharacter spaces 2, there being a shoulder on each side of the matrix at the junction of the .wider space with the narrower spaces. I

have shown the narrower spaces 2 on but two of the matrices in Fig. 2, omitting them on the other matrices as unnecessary.-

3, Fig. 2, represents wedge-shaped spacebands of any suitable construction.

The matrices in Fig. 2 are set up to cast the line In the first quarter, in which the characters are all of them of one and the same body-point. The manner in which they may be transposed to cast a line in which the char- .actersare of different body-pointswill be explained farther on.

In Figs. 3 and 4c the matrices are assembled to cast a line Bold-face type, with characters all ofthe same body-point. 5 represents the two narrower portions for the eighteenpoint-body faces, and 4c is the intermediate wider portion for the thirty-six-pointsbody faces. 7 is a spareband 6, Fig. 3, represents the cast metalline in'section;

Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate how' the matrices maybe shifted to cast a line combining the facesof different body-points. In these fig- .design of type. The forty-eight point-body face 8 is on the wider central portion ofthe matrix, and the two tliirty -six-point-body faces 9 are on the narrower portions of the matrix-bar above and below the central space 8, respectively. In -6 the matrices marked 11, 12, and 13 are side' elevations of the correspondingly-marked matrices in Fig. 5, showing the relative vertical position ,of these matrices. The matrices in Fig.5 are assembled so as to cast the line Rare books, combining characters of two different faces 01 body-points. .The "line cast from them is shown in Fig. 7 The manner in which they are shifted and arranged for this .purpose'will be readily understood by reference to the figure. The first letter R of the line is the central forty-eight-point-body face .8 on mamix '11. The second'letter a of the line is on the narrower portions or thirty-sire pointbody faces 8 of the matrix 12, which is raised untilthe lower character a on it is brought into linewiththe R on matrix 11. It will be noted that when thus placed the matrix 12 fits closely against matrix 11 throughout that portion of it which isoppoe site to the latter,

this being due to the "-stepped formation of the sides of the matrices. The third character r of thirty-six point-body face is obtained by'depressing the third matrix 13 until its upper narrow portion 9 is brought into line. Thenext matrix,

"with'similar point character e, is raised 'unti-lits lower narrower space-9 is brought into the line, and so on. In short, on each matrix the character-space of the greatest ,widtlioccupies the longitudinal center of the matrix and the character-spaces of less width are duplicated, there being one space for each character of less width both above and below the singlecentralcharacter-space of greatest width, and as the character-spaces progressively decrease in width. each character-space of less width is further removed from the center space, This is indicated clearly in Fig; 8, where the matrixa straight-bar matrix carries the character R'in three different point-body faces' The stepped formation of the matrix oneach side is plainly illustrated in this figure. r The duplication of the smaller or narrower letter or sign.

space.

spaces and locating the twospacesof each pair one above 'an'd one below the central widest space is because, considering the widest I character-space as the median l ne, it is necessary in setting up successive characters of less space width to lift and lower the successive matrices alternatively, so as to bring into line the lower character-space on the one matrix and the upper corresponding character-space on the next succeeding matrix; otherwise'the. stepped matrices would not fit toget-her, as they are shown to do in Fig. 5. so

- as to form a solid casting-line.

-.In'Fig. 5 theparts marked 10 are spacebands. In Fig. 6. the part marked 15 is a portion of the mold. The cast line is shown in elevation at 14;.

Iprovide the matrices, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, 5, and 8, with a plurality of notches 16 on their rear edges corresponding in number and location to the characters on the front edge of-the matrix. These notches are designed to engage a suitable device which when the selected character-space on the front edge of the matrix has been brought into line will engage the notch 16 on therear edge of the matrix appropriate to that space, and thus firmly hold the matrix in its adjusted position. I have not deemed it necessary to illustrate any such device, inasmuch as mechanism for ent invention.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the characteristic-of the invention is that the ma- -'trix' has a plurality of character-spaces of varying widths to receive characters (whether in intaglio-or in relief) representing the same The character-spaces of decreasing width may be arranged either above or below, or both above andbelow, the character-space of greatest width, or, in other words, the matrices may be stepped. both above and below'the center character-space or space of greatest width, (which is the arrangement illustrated in the drawings.) or it may be stepped either above or below that This last-mentioned modification is illustrated -in Figs. 9 and 10, where the matricesare each of them stepped either above or below the character-space of greatcstwidth. They are shown assembled in Fig. 9 so as to cast the line Rare books, combining character-spaces of two different widths or bodypoints. Fig. 10 is a side elevation of the matrices when assembled as in Fig. 9, showing also a portion of the mold. These figures,

a/mzatis nmta/idls, correspond, respecti vely, to Figs. 5 and 6, and will be understood without further description, the only difference between them being that in'Figs. 9, 10 there is but one step to the matrix, the narrower portion'9 being either above or below the wider portion}, while in Figs. 5 and 6 the narrower portions are duplicated, as 'hereinbefore described.v Othervariations also can be made IOC in the matrices without departure from my invention. I therefore do not limit myselt to the structural details hereinbefore set forthin illustration of my invention, but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

l. A matrix for line-casting machines provided with aplnrality of character-spacesof various widths, the widest character-space at the center and 'the narrower spaces in'pairs for each character, one above and one below the center space, each pair of. spaces being narrower than the next adjoining pair which intervenes between it and the central character-space, substantially as and for the purposes character-spaces but differ between themselves in style, face, height and width.

- In testimony whereof I aflix my'signature in -presence of two witnesses.

FRITZ C. LUCKE DAIX. Witnesses:

OSCAR MUssINAN, THEODOR NOLTE. 

